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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect for VE - Hyper-V, Change default restore location in MMC

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment - Hyper-V v8.1.8 on Hyper-V 2016: Is it possible to change the default restore location inside the MMC GUI when doing a Virtual Maschine Restore? If yes, how? Right now the default location (C:\ProgramData\...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Show Unprotected VM detail from Protection Summary

The Protection Summary section of the Policy Overview page shows protected and unprotected Virtual Machines. However I would expect to be able to click on the 'Unprotected' icon, for example, and get a list of unprotected VM's, but this is not the...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Creation of the O365 account automatically from SPP

When configuring backup of O365 the account and all required permissions shall be automatically applied from SPP
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

dsmc - more producer threads per filesystem

Modern SAN storage should not be limited to one producer thread per client filesystem during backups, nor 4 producer threads per DSMC instance. Requesting:A) RESOURCEUTIL max value should be higher, perhaps 20. B) New option, RESTHREADSPERFS, to s...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Oracle Enterprise Linux.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly Currently we need to create new SLA for create additional weekly / monthly / yearly which need additional backup windows time and additional s...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

VADP Proxy should be available as an appliance

The SPP server is available as an appliancevSnap server is available as an appliancebut VADP Proxy requires install of RHEL and installation of VADP Proxy software.This doesn't make any sense since the VADP Proxy already are part of the SPP server...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Have Spectrum Protect Plus integrate with Automated Ticket System

The customer has a desire for the alert system to interface with the Automated Ticketing System. This would allow that system to assign and notify individuals to respond to incidents on SPP
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration